Sally Go 'Round the Roses
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"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" is the name of a 1963 hit by the Jaynetts
, a Bronx
-based one-hit wonder
girl group
, released by J&S Records on the Tuff label.
-based Chess Records
. Spector was responsible for the Corsairs
' 1962 #12 hit "Smoky Places" which had been released on Tuff a subsidiary of J&S Records. In the summer of 1963 Spector asked J&S owner Zelma "Zell" Sanders to assemble a vocal ensemble to record a girl group
style record to which end Sanders wrote the song "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" with Spector's wife Lona Stevens, drawing inspiration from the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie". (The songwriting copyright for "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" is now in the name Abner Spector who died in 2010; Zell Sanders died in 1976.)
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The arrangement of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was provided by Artie Butler, who recalls Spector "asked me to listen to [the] song...[I] decided that in its present form it did not [have potential], but I heard something in my head. He said, 'Go into a small demo studio and do what you hear,' and he would pay for it." Butler claims he played all the instruments on the track except for the guitar parts which were by Al Gorgoni and Carl Lynch, although it is widely reported that Buddy Miles
is the drummer on "Sally Go 'Round the Roses". Butler states the entire recording of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was done "on an old Ampex tape machine at 7 IPS mono....Each time when I added another element" - including the final element: the vocalists - "I added a different type of reverb. Each generation [ie. development] seemed to add to the distinct sound of the record."
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Besides the five vocalists credited in the group Zell Sanders lined up to record "Sally Go 'Round the Roses": Yvonne Bushnell, Ethel Davis (aka Vernell Hill), Ada Ray Kelly, Johnnie Louise Richardson and Mary Sue Wells (aka Mary Sue Wellington/ Mary Green Wilson), at least five other vocalists are known to be featured on the track: Selena Healey, Marie Hood, Marlene Jenkins (aka Marlina Mack/ Marlina Mars), Louise Harris Murray, Lezli Valentine and Iggy Williams have been identified as participating in the recording sessions for "Sally Go 'Round the Roses",
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which took place over a week, running up of costs of $60,000 - then an exorbitant amount of time and money for a single track. According to Johnnie Louise Richardson: "Anybody that came in the studio that week, [Spector] would put them on [the track]. Originally, I think he had about 20 voices on 'Sally.'"
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Butler's recollection is that Spector only heard the "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" track when it was completed and "hated it. He was really angry. He felt that I wasted his money." Butler played the track for Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
, who offered to buy it from Spector: the interest of the legendary duo caused Spector to reassess "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", which he had Sanders release as a single credited to "the Jaynetts", with the instrumental track as the B-side. (Butler claims his only return for arranging "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was being credited as arranger on the record.)
http://www.artiebutler.com/sally.html
. A favorite performance number of Grace Slick
when she fronted her pre-Jefferson Airplane
outfit the Great Society, "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was also a formative influence on Laura Nyro
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"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100
dated 28 September 1963 remaining at #2 on the Hot 100 dated 12 October; on the Music Vendor Top 40
dated 12 October 1963 "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was ranked at #1.
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"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was also a hit in France
, reaching #7 with a 17-week chart run, http://infodisc.fr/Bilan_J.php and reached #2 in New Zealand
.
Tuff released a Sally Go 'Round the Roses album which - despite the group being promoted as a quintet - displayed a cover image of a trio, only two of whom - Ethel Davis and Lezli Valentine - are identifiable. Besides the title cut - in both vocal and instrumental versions - and the follow-up single "Keep An Eye On Her", the album featured "Archie's Melody", "Bongo Bobby", "I Wanna Know", "No Love At All", "One Track Mind", "Pick Up My Marbles", "School Days" and "See Saw"; also featured as "A Special Guest Appearance" was "Dear Abby" credited to the Hearts, a minor hit (#94) recorded by at least some of the same personnel as "Sally Go 'Round the Roses".
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whose version had an October 1963 release on Decca
: this version failed to chart as did later covers by the Remo Four
in May 1964 and Dee King
the future actress Diane Keen
in April 1966, both on Piccadilly Records. Sally Go 'Round the Roses" would gain its highest UK profile as recorded by Pentangle
in 1969 for their hit album Basket of Light
(#5); "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was employed as B-side for the 1970 US single release of the Basket of Light track "Light Flight" which had charted in the UK but with a different B-side ("Cold Mountain").
A French language version of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", rendered by Jacques Plante as "Rose (Parmi Les Roses)" (Rose among roses) was recorded in the autumn of 1963 by both Richard Anthony; Anthony's version became the hit in 1963-64 reaching #3 in France and also - as a double A-side hit with "Tchin Tchin" - #4 in Belgium (Wallonia). Nana Mouskouri
, who also recorded "Rose (Parmi Les Roses)", recorded the Italian rendering "Rosa tra le rose" which charted in Italy at #32 in 1965.
Joan Baez
is shown singing a fragment of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" in the 1967 film Dont Look Back
.
In Australia
, Doug Parkinson and the Questions
had a hit with "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", reaching #33 in 1967.
A version of "Sally Go Round The Roses" was also the first single release by American singer Donna Summer
then known as Donna Gaines: Gaines recorded the track in a session in London produced by former Bee Gees
' guitarist Vince Melouney
also recording the Melouney original "So Said the Man" which served as the single's B-side
. "Sally Go Round the Roses" by Donna Gaines was issued as a one-off 1971 release on MCA Records in the United Kingdom
(with catalog# MK 5060) and Europe with no evident result.
"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" has also been recorded by ? and the Mysterians, Caroleen Beatty, Judy Collins
(on Portrait of an American Girl
2005), Yvonne Elliman
, Fanny
, Holly Golightly
, the Ikettes
(B-side
of "(Never More) Lonely For You" - December 1965), Alannah Myles
, Asha Puthli
, Normie Rowe
, Mitch Ryder
, Voice Farm
and - as an instrumental - by Henry Kaiser
. A 1966 performance by Grace Slick is featured on Conspicuous Only in its Absence
, the Great Society's live album released in 1968. The soundtrack for the 1999 film A Walk on the Moon featured a remake of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" by Damnations TX. Anny Celsi remade "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" for her 2009 album Tangle Free World: Celsi's version features Evie Sands
as a backup vocalist.
Patti Scialfa
's self-penned song "The Word" on her 2007 album Play It as It Lays references the lyrics of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" and acknowledges the source.
introduced a song entitled "Sally, Go 'Round the Roses" on his 1973 Sefronia
album. Although obviously inspired by the Jaynetts' hit, the songwriting credit only mentions Buckley himself. The spin Buckley has put on the Jaynetts song lyric: "Sally don't you go - don't you go downtown/ Because the saddest thing in the whole wide world is to see your baby with another girl", which Buckley renders as "Oh Sally don't you go down - Oh darlin' don't you go down/ Honey the saddest thing in the whole wide world/ Is to find your woman been with another girl" develops the lyric of the original song into a homosexual context.
The Jaynetts
The Jaynetts were a Bronx, New York girl group who became one-hit wonders with "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.-Beginnings:...
, a Bronx
The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...
-based one-hit wonder
One-hit wonder
A one-hit wonder is a person or act known mainly for only a single success. The term is most often used to describe music performers with only one hit single.-Characteristics:...
girl group
Girl group
A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...
, released by J&S Records on the Tuff label.
Background
The producer of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" Abner Spector was an A&R man for the ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
-based Chess Records
Chess Records
Chess Records was an American record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It specialized in blues, R&B, soul, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz releases....
. Spector was responsible for the Corsairs
The Corsairs
The Corsairs were an American doo wop ensemble from La Grange, North Carolina.The group consisted of three brothers and their cousin. Initially they performed as The Gleems, and toured the East Coast, where they were overheard by Abner Spector. Changing their name in 1961 to The Corsairs, they...
' 1962 #12 hit "Smoky Places" which had been released on Tuff a subsidiary of J&S Records. In the summer of 1963 Spector asked J&S owner Zelma "Zell" Sanders to assemble a vocal ensemble to record a girl group
Girl group
A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...
style record to which end Sanders wrote the song "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" with Spector's wife Lona Stevens, drawing inspiration from the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie". (The songwriting copyright for "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" is now in the name Abner Spector who died in 2010; Zell Sanders died in 1976.)
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The arrangement of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was provided by Artie Butler, who recalls Spector "asked me to listen to [the] song...[I] decided that in its present form it did not [have potential], but I heard something in my head. He said, 'Go into a small demo studio and do what you hear,' and he would pay for it." Butler claims he played all the instruments on the track except for the guitar parts which were by Al Gorgoni and Carl Lynch, although it is widely reported that Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles
George Allen Miles, Jr. , known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a founding member of The Electric Flag in 1967, then as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 through to January 1970.-Early life:George Allen Miles was born in Omaha, Nebraska on...
is the drummer on "Sally Go 'Round the Roses". Butler states the entire recording of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was done "on an old Ampex tape machine at 7 IPS mono....Each time when I added another element" - including the final element: the vocalists - "I added a different type of reverb. Each generation [ie. development] seemed to add to the distinct sound of the record."
http://www.artiebutler.com/sally.html
Besides the five vocalists credited in the group Zell Sanders lined up to record "Sally Go 'Round the Roses": Yvonne Bushnell, Ethel Davis (aka Vernell Hill), Ada Ray Kelly, Johnnie Louise Richardson and Mary Sue Wells (aka Mary Sue Wellington/ Mary Green Wilson), at least five other vocalists are known to be featured on the track: Selena Healey, Marie Hood, Marlene Jenkins (aka Marlina Mack/ Marlina Mars), Louise Harris Murray, Lezli Valentine and Iggy Williams have been identified as participating in the recording sessions for "Sally Go 'Round the Roses",
http://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/jaynettes.htm
which took place over a week, running up of costs of $60,000 - then an exorbitant amount of time and money for a single track. According to Johnnie Louise Richardson: "Anybody that came in the studio that week, [Spector] would put them on [the track]. Originally, I think he had about 20 voices on 'Sally.'"
http://www.history-of-rock.com/jaynetts.htm
Butler's recollection is that Spector only heard the "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" track when it was completed and "hated it. He was really angry. He felt that I wasted his money." Butler played the track for Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Jerome "Jerry" Leiber and Mike Stoller were American songwriting and record producing partners. Stoller was the composer and Leiber the lyricist. Their most famous songs include "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock", "Kansas City", "Stand By Me" Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011)...
, who offered to buy it from Spector: the interest of the legendary duo caused Spector to reassess "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", which he had Sanders release as a single credited to "the Jaynetts", with the instrumental track as the B-side. (Butler claims his only return for arranging "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was being credited as arranger on the record.)
http://www.artiebutler.com/sally.html
Success
"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" had its first major market breakout in San Francisco, its ringing arrangement being a precursor of the San Francisco SoundSan Francisco Sound
The San Francisco Sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid 1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in San Francisco during these years.- Stylistic Dimensions :...
. A favorite performance number of Grace Slick
Grace Slick
Grace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s...
when she fronted her pre-Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
outfit the Great Society, "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was also a formative influence on Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved considerable critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th...
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"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
dated 28 September 1963 remaining at #2 on the Hot 100 dated 12 October; on the Music Vendor Top 40
Record World
Record World magazine was one of the three main music industry trade publications in the United States, along with Billboard and Cash Box magazines. It was founded in 1946 under the name Music Vendor, but since 1964 changed it to Record World, under the ownership of Sid Parnes and Bob Austin, both...
dated 12 October 1963 "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was ranked at #1.
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"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was also a hit in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, reaching #7 with a 17-week chart run, http://infodisc.fr/Bilan_J.php and reached #2 in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
.
Tuff released a Sally Go 'Round the Roses album which - despite the group being promoted as a quintet - displayed a cover image of a trio, only two of whom - Ethel Davis and Lezli Valentine - are identifiable. Besides the title cut - in both vocal and instrumental versions - and the follow-up single "Keep An Eye On Her", the album featured "Archie's Melody", "Bongo Bobby", "I Wanna Know", "No Love At All", "One Track Mind", "Pick Up My Marbles", "School Days" and "See Saw"; also featured as "A Special Guest Appearance" was "Dear Abby" credited to the Hearts, a minor hit (#94) recorded by at least some of the same personnel as "Sally Go 'Round the Roses".
http://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/jaynettes.htm
- 1 Kort, Michele. Soul Picnic: the Music Soul & Passion of Laura Nyro (New York: Thomas Dunne Books. 2002. ISBN 0-312-20941-X) p. 15.
Other versions
In the UK - where the Jaynetts' single had a non-charting 1963 release on Stateside - "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was first covered by Lyn CornellThe Pearls
The Pearls were a 1970s girl vocal duo from Liverpool, England, featuring Lyn Cornell and Ann Simmons. They released a number of singles, the most successful being "Guilty", which reached #10 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1974.-Career:...
whose version had an October 1963 release on Decca
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
: this version failed to chart as did later covers by the Remo Four
The Remo Four
The Remo Four were a 1950s-1960s rock band from Liverpool, England. They were contemporaries of The Beatles, and later had the same manager, Brian Epstein...
in May 1964 and Dee King
Diane Keen
Diane Keen is an English actress.Keen is possibly best known for her starring roles in the British TV drama Doctors which she has been in since 2003 , and in the 1970s comedy series The Cuckoo Waltz and Rings on Their Fingers.-Personal life:Keen has one daughter, actress Melissa Greenwood, from...
the future actress Diane Keen
Diane Keen
Diane Keen is an English actress.Keen is possibly best known for her starring roles in the British TV drama Doctors which she has been in since 2003 , and in the 1970s comedy series The Cuckoo Waltz and Rings on Their Fingers.-Personal life:Keen has one daughter, actress Melissa Greenwood, from...
in April 1966, both on Piccadilly Records. Sally Go 'Round the Roses" would gain its highest UK profile as recorded by Pentangle
Pentangle (band)
Pentangle are a British folk rock band with some folk jazz influences. The original band were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version has been active since the early 1980s...
in 1969 for their hit album Basket of Light
Basket of Light
Basket of Light is a 1969 album by the folk rock group Pentangle. It reached #5 on the UK charts largely on the basis of the single "Light Flight" , the theme from BBC1's first colour drama series Take Three Girls.-A side:-B side:...
(#5); "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was employed as B-side for the 1970 US single release of the Basket of Light track "Light Flight" which had charted in the UK but with a different B-side ("Cold Mountain").
A French language version of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", rendered by Jacques Plante as "Rose (Parmi Les Roses)" (Rose among roses) was recorded in the autumn of 1963 by both Richard Anthony; Anthony's version became the hit in 1963-64 reaching #3 in France and also - as a double A-side hit with "Tchin Tchin" - #4 in Belgium (Wallonia). Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...
, who also recorded "Rose (Parmi Les Roses)", recorded the Italian rendering "Rosa tra le rose" which charted in Italy at #32 in 1965.
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
is shown singing a fragment of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" in the 1967 film Dont Look Back
Dont Look Back
Dont Look Back is a 1967 documentary film by D.A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in the United Kingdom.In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically...
.
In Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Doug Parkinson and the Questions
Doug Parkinson
Douglas "Doug" Parkinson is an Australian singer who first came to fame with his band, Doug Parkinson In Focus, in 1969. He has had numerous hits on the Australian Top 40 charts.-Career:...
had a hit with "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", reaching #33 in 1967.
A version of "Sally Go Round The Roses" was also the first single release by American singer Donna Summer
Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...
then known as Donna Gaines: Gaines recorded the track in a session in London produced by former Bee Gees
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
' guitarist Vince Melouney
Vince Melouney
Vince Melouney was a founding member of Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, playing with the band as lead guitarist from 1963 to 1965, which was followed by a short-lived duo with fellow Aztec Tony Barber, called Vince & Tony's Two.In 1967, after moving to the UK, he was invited to join the Bee Gees...
also recording the Melouney original "So Said the Man" which served as the single's B-side
A-side and B-side
A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
. "Sally Go Round the Roses" by Donna Gaines was issued as a one-off 1971 release on MCA Records in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
(with catalog# MK 5060) and Europe with no evident result.
"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" has also been recorded by ? and the Mysterians, Caroleen Beatty, Judy Collins
Judy Collins
Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins is an American singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism. She is an alumna of the University of Colorado.-Musical career:Collins was born and raised in Seattle, Washington...
(on Portrait of an American Girl
Portrait of an American Girl
-Track listing:#"Singing Lessons" - 4:05#"That Song About the Midway" - 4:09#"I Can't Cry Hard Enough" - 3:18#"You Can't Buy Love" - 3:13#"Pacing the Cage" - 4:02...
2005), Yvonne Elliman
Yvonne Elliman
Yvonne Marianne Elliman is an American singer who performed for four years in the first cast of Jesus Christ Superstar...
, Fanny
Fanny (band)
Fanny was an American girl band, led by June Millington. They were pioneers as one of the first rock bands to feature all women, and the third to sign to a major record label, after Goldie & the Gingerbreads and The Pleasure Seekers...
, Holly Golightly
Holly Golightly
Holly Golightly is a British singer-songwriter. Her mother christened her after the protagonist in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Her musical style ranges from garage rock to R&B.-Musical career:...
, the Ikettes
The Ikettes
The Ikettes were a trio of female backing vocalists for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, a prominent American rhythm and blues group from the 1960s.-Career:...
(B-side
A-side and B-side
A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
of "(Never More) Lonely For You" - December 1965), Alannah Myles
Alannah Myles
Alannah Myles is a Canadian singer-songwriter, the daughter of Canadian broadcast pioneer William Douglas Byles. In 1989, she released her eponymous debut album...
, Asha Puthli
Asha Puthli
Asha Puthli is an Indian-born singer-songwriter, producer and actress.Best recognized for her daredevil vocals on the "Science Fiction" album by jazz iconoclast Ornette Coleman, Asha Puthli has recorded ten solo albums for labels like EMI, CBS/Sony, and RCA...
, Normie Rowe
Normie Rowe
Norman John "Normie" Rowe AM was a major male solo performer of Australian pop music in the 1960s. Known for his bright and edgy tenor voice and dynamic stage presence, many of Rowe's most successful recordings were produced by Pat Aulton, house producer for the Sunshine Records, Spin Records and...
, Mitch Ryder
Mitch Ryder
William S. Levise, Jr , better known by his stage name Mitch Ryder, is an American musician who has recorded over two dozen albums in more than four decades.-Career:...
, Voice Farm
The World We Live In (album)
The World We Live In was the 1982 debut album from the San Francisco based, new wave group Voice Farm. It includes the catchy, funny putdown Beatnik and the album-closing Over and Over, which blends a lyrical theme of obsession with relentless, ominous bass tones. Also included is a synthesizer...
and - as an instrumental - by Henry Kaiser
Henry Kaiser (musician)
Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer.Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "first generation" of American free improvisers.-Biography:His grandfather was the...
. A 1966 performance by Grace Slick is featured on Conspicuous Only in its Absence
Conspicuous Only in its Absence
Conspicuous Only in Its Absence is an album by the American psychedelic rock band The Great Society and was released in 1968 by Columbia Records. The album consists of recordings made during a live concert performance by the band at The Matrix club in San Francisco in 1966. Additional recordings...
, the Great Society's live album released in 1968. The soundtrack for the 1999 film A Walk on the Moon featured a remake of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" by Damnations TX. Anny Celsi remade "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" for her 2009 album Tangle Free World: Celsi's version features Evie Sands
Evie Sands
Evie Sands is a Brooklyn-born singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career began as a young teenager in the mid-1960s...
as a backup vocalist.
Patti Scialfa
Patti Scialfa
Vivienne Patricia "Patti" Scialfa is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She is married to Bruce Springsteen and they have three children.- Early life :...
's self-penned song "The Word" on her 2007 album Play It as It Lays references the lyrics of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" and acknowledges the source.
"Sally, Go 'Round the Roses" by Tim Buckley
Tim BuckleyTim Buckley
Timothy Charles Buckley III was an American vocalist, and musician. His music and style changed considerably through the years; his first album was mostly folk oriented, but over time his music incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul, avant-garde and an evolving "voice as instrument," sound...
introduced a song entitled "Sally, Go 'Round the Roses" on his 1973 Sefronia
Sefronia
Sefronia is the eighth album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, released in 1973. The album was recorded at Paramount Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California...
album. Although obviously inspired by the Jaynetts' hit, the songwriting credit only mentions Buckley himself. The spin Buckley has put on the Jaynetts song lyric: "Sally don't you go - don't you go downtown/ Because the saddest thing in the whole wide world is to see your baby with another girl", which Buckley renders as "Oh Sally don't you go down - Oh darlin' don't you go down/ Honey the saddest thing in the whole wide world/ Is to find your woman been with another girl" develops the lyric of the original song into a homosexual context.